It may be a generation thing. For quite a while YouTube was about content, not presentation. You usually watched the video about something and that was all the video showed, specially because monetisation wasn’t so common. Even garbage was mostly just the garbage itself (and there was lots of it, but different than now). It was a treasure chest, full of content people uploaded just because they wanted other people to see.

I guess this guy is OK for the current "standards*, but that’s a very, very low bar now. I’m not criticising him in particular, but YouTube in general. It’s always a shock to me when I get exposed to it, which is luckily rare.